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“We will be one step down from the Creator," she said, her olive-hued face tightening into an expression that she considered dramatic. "Imagining a world and then making it.”
― Walter Mosley

“Since she seen Fortune head in that big pot Miss Lydia say that room make her feel ill, sick with the thought of boiling human broth. I wonder how she think it make me feel?

To dust the hands what use to stroke my breast; to dust the arms what hold me when I cried; to dust where his soft lips were and his chest what curved its warm against my back at night.

From the poem "Dinah's Lament" (15)”
― Marilyn Nelson, Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem

“And though this encounter took place against an African sky, our brief enchantment symbolized the new world's greatest taboo - the hand of a very black man caressing the face of the blackest woman, with no shred of light entering into it, utter darkness alone representing God (71).”
― Kola Boof, The Sexy Part of the Bible

“...I think it's some kind of meeting of energies that causes what we see, and that part of those energies emanate from our lifeforces, our minds.”
― Walter Mosley